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Handful of Leaves, Volume Four
AN 6:42 To Nāgita | Nāgita Sutta
… Why is that? Because such is the Blessed One’s virtue & discernment.” “May I have nothing to do with honor, Nāgita, and honor nothing to do with me. Whoever cannot obtain at will—without difficulty, without trouble—as I do, the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of self-awakening, let him consent to this slimy-excrement …
Handful of Leaves, Volume Four
AN 6:45 Debt | Iṇa Sutta
… Now, anyone with conviction firmly established in the discipline of the noble ones— with a sense of shame, of compunction, discerning & restrained by virtue— is, in the discipline of the noble ones, said to be living in ease. Gaining a pleasure not of the flesh, he determines on equanimity, abandoning the five hindrances —persistence constantly aroused— entering the jhānas: unified, mindful, astute. Knowing this …
Handful of Leaves, Volume Four
AN 10:92 Animosity | Vera Sutta
… deserving of gifts, deserving of hospitality, deserving of offerings, deserving of respect, the incomparable field of merit for the world.’ “He is endowed with virtues that are appealing to the noble ones: untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, liberating, praised by the observant, ungrasped at, leading to concentration. “These are the four factors of stream entry with which he is endowed. “And which is the noble …
Handful of Leaves, Volume Four
AN 8:22 About Ugga | Ugga Sutta
… He gave me a graduated talk, i.e., a talk on giving, a talk on virtue, a talk on heaven; he proclaimed the drawbacks of, degradation in, & defilement in sensuality, and the rewards of renunciation. Then—when the Blessed One knew that I was of ready mind, malleable mind, unhindered mind, exultant mind, confident mind—he proclaimed to me the distinctive teaching of the …
Handful of Leaves, Volume Four
AN 8:103 Honor | Yasa Sutta
… Why is that? Because such is the Blessed One’s virtue & discernment.” “May I have nothing to do with honor, Nāgita, and honor nothing to do with me. Whoever cannot obtain at will—without difficulty, without trouble—as I do, the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of self-awakening, let him consent to this slimy-excrement …- End of results




